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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Multisensory
Mathew Effect
Chall's Stage 3
Vowel Digraph
2. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Diphthong
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Auditory Processing
3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Reliability
Texas Education Code 38.003
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
ADHD
4. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Derived Score
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Old English
Base Word
5. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Modern English
Ability
Sight Words
6. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Three Layers of Language
Orthography
Derivative
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Kinesthetic
Prefix
WRAT
8. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Latin layer of language
VV
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Grade equivalents
9. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Sound Symbol Association
Derived Score
Academic Achievement Tests
Mathew Effect
10. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Towre
Whole Language
Profile
Consonant
11. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
[-'le
Rate
Synthetic Instruction
Oral Language
12. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Middle English
Composite Score
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
13. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Mastery level
Orthography
Letter naming Chart
V-e
14. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Norm-Referenced Test
Attention
IMSLEC
15. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Tactile
Modification
Macron
Profile
16. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Closed Syllable
Vr
Affix
Syllable Instruction
17. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Mathew Effect
Pre-English
Phonics
Combination
18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Percentile/ percentile rank
Letter naming Chart
Syntax
19. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
ESL
Semantics
Social language
WIATII
20. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Receptive language
Accent
IDEA
21. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
The Norman Conquest
Morpheme
Texas Education Code 38.003
22. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Phonics
Joe Torgesen
Texas Education Code 28.06
23. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Composite Score
Adolf Kusmaul
Digraph
Multi-Sensory Approach
24. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Reliability
Age equivalent
Grapheme
Standardized test
25. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Raw score
Composite Score
Anglo Saxon
Samuel T. Orton
26. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Reading Comprehension Support
Universal Screening
Open Syllable
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
27. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Vowel
Fluency
Macron
Whole Language
28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Expressive language
Curriculum referenced tests
Chall's Stage 5
29. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Quadrigraph
Vr
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Composite Score
30. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Affix
V-e
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Vowel Digraph
31. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Combination
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Reliability
Morpheme
32. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Standard Scores
Syntax
Great Vowel Shift
Oral Language
33. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Impulsivity
Diphthong
GORT
34. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
SBOE
Norm-referenced tests
Stanine Scores
35. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Closed Syllable
Consonant
Tactile
36. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Mathew Effect
Great Vowel Shift
Standard score
Social language
37. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Mastery level
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Trigraph
38. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Samuel T. Orton
Grade equivalents
Prefix
Auditory Learners
39. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Accent
Accommodation
Syntax
Standard score
40. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Standard Scores
Phonemic/ decodable words
Texas Education Code 28.06
41. Multisensory Structured Language
Samuel T. Orton
MSL
Simultaneous teaching
Diphthong
42. r-controlled syllable
Texas Education Code 28.06
Open Syllable
The Norman Conquest
Vr
43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Auditory Processing
Phonology
Raw score
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
44. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Reliability
Derivative
Fluency
45. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Suffix
Morpheme
Accent
46. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Attention
Grade equivalents
Reliability
Cognitive Assessment
47. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Dyslexia
Syllable Instruction
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Prefix
48. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
V >
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
49. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Sound Symbol Association
Mastery level
MSL
Frank Smith
50. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Profile
Simultaneous teaching
Six basic types of syllables
Anglo Saxon